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Americans to show series about Nicholas II

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Americans to show series about Nicholas II


03.07.2019

Photo credit: scene from The Last Czars © Netflix

Netflix is ​​launching a premiere show of a new series telling the story of the last Russian Emperor, RT television channel reports. 

The first series of The Last Czars will be shown on Wednesday, July 3. Six episodes are scheduled for the first season. The show covers a period of two decades. It begins with the coronation of Nicholas II in 1896 and ends with the shooting of the royal family in Yekaterinburg in 1918. The tragedy on Khodynka, failure in the war with Japan, the First World War, the revolution and life of the royal family after his arrest fall into this era. The series will also show 1913, when Russia celebrated the three-century anniversary of the House of Romanov. 

The series interwoven documentary and reconstruction. Artists Robert Jack, Suzanne Herbert and Ben Cartwright starred. Their names are unfamiliar to the Russian TV viewer. 

Note, last year the centenary anniversary of the death of Nicholas II, his relatives and confidants was celebrated. 

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